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Mercury Ordering Calypso to Allow Odysseus to Depart
Public Domain

Gerard Valck, Gerard de Lairesse, and others

Mercury Ordering Calypso to Allow Odysseus to Depart

1670-1700

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Mercury Ordering Calypso to Allow Odysseus to Depart

1670-1700

Physical Qualities Engraving, Sheet: 352 × 466 mm. (13 7/8 × 18 3/8 in.) Plate: 287 × 337 mm. (11 5/16 × 13 1/4 in.) Image: 265 × 327 mm. (10 7/16 × 12 7/8 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1984.81.577

Inscribed: Recto: below image, lower center, in plate "Mittitur a Iove Mercurius ad Calypzonum, ut dimittat Ulissem,"; below image and title, lower left, in plate "G. Laires. inuen."; below image and title, lower right, in plate "Homeri Iliad lib.v. / G.Valck, sculp. et ex. 91"

Markings: WM: letters (unidentified)

Artist

Gerard Valck

Dutch, 1651/52 - 1726

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